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29 de may. de 2024 · Now sadly little known, Henry Flitcroft was a Palladian who lacked pretense, employing technical fluency and economical practices to produce works ranging from the stout little Pantheon at Stourhead to the grand east front of Wentworth Woodhouse and much else besides.
Hace 2 días · The plasterwork of the staircase was agreed to be executed 'in such and the same manner as Mr Turners in Sackville Street which was built by the said Henry Flitcroft'. Flitcroft was probably paid £128 or so for his services. He was not necessarily wholly responsible for the design of the house.
Hace 6 días · A letter written in 1744 by Robert Butcher, the Duke's steward, when Henry Flitcroft was the estate surveyor, to William Perritt or Perrott, a plasterer looking for work, refers to the Broad Court scheme.
Hace 4 días · This triangular tower, two miles north-west of Stourhead garden, was designed by Henry Flitcroft for Stourhead's second owner, Sir Henry Hoare II. The Tower is named after King Alfred who raised his standard here in 870.
30 de may. de 2024 · Henry Flitcroft (d. 1769), who carried out extensive alterations in the ensuing decade which still largely determine the house's external appearance, made a number of preliminary drawings and plans, two of which (Plate 133) are reproduced. They are the most important source apart from the fabric itself for our knowledge of the early ...
15 de may. de 2024 · Henry Hoare, owner of Stourhead, claimed that he took the design from Palladio's design for a bridge at Vicenza, but the two there have only three arches. Henry Flitcroft's five-arch design is actually a composite of Plate 7 (Fig 3.2, at Rimini) and Plate 12.
Hace 2 días · Hoare hired renowned Palladian architect Henry Flitcroft to design the tower in 1765. Construction of the building began in 1769. With walls nearly three feet thick and more than one million red bricks required, the project underwent delays — and Hoare feared it would outlive him.
